The son of George & Coriana or Clarinda (Miller) Bessor, in 1860 he was an cabinet maker's apprentice living with and/or working for master cabinet maker William Hazlet in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 7" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg April 24, 1861, mustered into federal service at Washington DC July 27 as a private with Co. D, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves (35th Pennsylvania Infantry), and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He was shot in the shoulder (which one not stated in his compiled military service records) causing a fracture of the head of the humerus, this during action at South Mountain, Maryland, on September 14, 1862. Admitted to Casperis Hotel U.S. Hospital, Washington DC, he received a thirty-day furlough beginning December 6, 1862, and returned to Casparis where he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate January 22, 1863.
He married Emma Rebecca Nicholas or Nicklas and fathered Emma Rebecca (b. 01/26/68 - married J. Harvey Sollenberger), George William (b. 10/26/69), Anna A. (b. 03/31/71 - married a Miller), Mary Cora (b. 05/14/73 - married Harry B. Myers), Philip Nicklas (b. 01/08/75), Ella Ruth (b. 04/??/77), L. Aletta (b. 05/31/79), Susan A. (b. 09/??/80), John Otterbein (b. 04/19/90), and Grace Elizabeth (b. 12/01/91 - married James Wilson Dieffenderfer). Cause of his death is listed as "lobar pneumonia."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg April 24, 1861, mustered into federal service at Washington DC July 27 as a private with Co. D, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves (35th Pennsylvania Infantry), and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He was shot in the shoulder (which one not stated in his compiled military service records) causing a fracture of the head of the humerus, this during action at South Mountain, Maryland, on September 14, 1862. Admitted to Casperis Hotel U.S. Hospital, Washington DC, he received a thirty-day furlough beginning December 6, 1862, and returned to Casparis where he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate January 22, 1863.
He married Emma Rebecca Nicholas or Nicklas and fathered Emma Rebecca (b. 01/26/68 - married J. Harvey Sollenberger), George William (b. 10/26/69), Anna A. (b. 03/31/71 - married a Miller), Mary Cora (b. 05/14/73 - married Harry B. Myers), Philip Nicklas (b. 01/08/75), Ella Ruth (b. 04/??/77), L. Aletta (b. 05/31/79), Susan A. (b. 09/??/80), John Otterbein (b. 04/19/90), and Grace Elizabeth (b. 12/01/91 - married James Wilson Dieffenderfer). Cause of his death is listed as "lobar pneumonia."
The son of George & Coriana or Clarinda (Miller) Bessor, in 1860 he was an cabinet maker's apprentice living with and/or working for master cabinet maker William Hazlet in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 7" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg April 24, 1861, mustered into federal service at Washington DC July 27 as a private with Co. D, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves (35th Pennsylvania Infantry), and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He was shot in the shoulder (which one not stated in his compiled military service records) causing a fracture of the head of the humerus, this during action at South Mountain, Maryland, on September 14, 1862. Admitted to Casperis Hotel U.S. Hospital, Washington DC, he received a thirty-day furlough beginning December 6, 1862, and returned to Casparis where he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate January 22, 1863.
He married Emma Rebecca Nicholas or Nicklas and fathered Emma Rebecca (b. 01/26/68 - married J. Harvey Sollenberger), George William (b. 10/26/69), Anna A. (b. 03/31/71 - married a Miller), Mary Cora (b. 05/14/73 - married Harry B. Myers), Philip Nicklas (b. 01/08/75), Ella Ruth (b. 04/??/77), L. Aletta (b. 05/31/79), Susan A. (b. 09/??/80), John Otterbein (b. 04/19/90), and Grace Elizabeth (b. 12/01/91 - married James Wilson Dieffenderfer). Cause of his death is listed as "lobar pneumonia."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg April 24, 1861, mustered into federal service at Washington DC July 27 as a private with Co. D, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves (35th Pennsylvania Infantry), and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He was shot in the shoulder (which one not stated in his compiled military service records) causing a fracture of the head of the humerus, this during action at South Mountain, Maryland, on September 14, 1862. Admitted to Casperis Hotel U.S. Hospital, Washington DC, he received a thirty-day furlough beginning December 6, 1862, and returned to Casparis where he discharged the service by surgeon's certificate January 22, 1863.
He married Emma Rebecca Nicholas or Nicklas and fathered Emma Rebecca (b. 01/26/68 - married J. Harvey Sollenberger), George William (b. 10/26/69), Anna A. (b. 03/31/71 - married a Miller), Mary Cora (b. 05/14/73 - married Harry B. Myers), Philip Nicklas (b. 01/08/75), Ella Ruth (b. 04/??/77), L. Aletta (b. 05/31/79), Susan A. (b. 09/??/80), John Otterbein (b. 04/19/90), and Grace Elizabeth (b. 12/01/91 - married James Wilson Dieffenderfer). Cause of his death is listed as "lobar pneumonia."
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